People and Organizations Interacting

People and Organizations Interacting

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780471904762
  • DDC分類 658.406

Full Description


This book, through a series of case studies, explores the interactive process between people and organizations which has resulted through rapidly changing technologies. By concentrating on one pioneering company - Shell - it shows how a successful industry and its employees can adapt and survive in an ever- changing environment. At the same time the contents illustrate how practice and theory interact and how organizational theory, both explicitly and implicitly, has been used in very diverse cultural settings. This book explains why and how organizations adapt both in content and context and emphasizes that to move towards a more desirable future it is essential to look at organizations in an interactive way.

Contents

Foreword; Introduction; A Way to Look at Things; The 'Project With the Long Breath': Organizational Change in a Tanker Company; Organization Change on a North Sea Project; From Vertical to Horizontal: New Organizational Principles in a Refinery; Redesign in Research: Participative Redesign of Work Organizations; Organization Development on the Shop Floor; Evolution, Revolution, and the Battle for Survival; Organization Design in Canada: Sarnia Chemical Plant; Development in Norske Shell's Organization; Working Life in Japan; A Group in Transition; The Cultural Perspective; Managing Diversity; Index.